When the viewer is connecting to the Kerio Network Monitor Daemon service, the user name and the password are required. It ensures that only the authorized users have access to the data and the program configuration and no data breach or its intentional falsification by changing the configuration, should appear.
Any number of user accounts with different levels of access rights can be defined in Kerio Network Monitor. There is a tab Users for this purpose in the configuration dialog (this tab can be also opened using the Settings / Users) menu.
The list of users in this tab includes the following information:
- Username
User name (which the user logs in with)
- Rights
Access rights of the user (for details see bellow)
- Enabled
Account state: enabled (yes) or blocked (no)
The buttons under the list of the accounts allow definition of new user (Add), modification of settings for the selected account (Edit) or deleting the account (Remove).
Note: The predefined user account Admin can not be removed, assigned access rights or disabled.
The dialog for definition of the user account will be shown after pressing the Add or Edit buttons .
- Username
Name of the user. It should not contain blanks and punctuation marks. Small and capital letters are not distinguished.
- Password
The user password. Can contain any printable characters (including spaces); distinguishes capital and small letters.
- Password again
Verification of the password (to check that no mistakes occurred when entering the password)
Warning: For security purposes, it is recommended not to leave the password empty! Also the password of the predefined user Admin should be changed after the first logon.
- Account is disabled
It is possible to temporarily deactivate (“turn off”) the user account by setting this option on.
If this option is on value NO apppears in the column Enabled in the list of the users , in the other case the value is yes.
- Can manage users
The user is allowed to create, modify and delete the user accounts.
This option also activates the option Can configure the service and in the column Rights in the list of the users is displayed as ManUsers (resp. Conf ManUsers).
- Can configure the service
The user can perform the configuration of the Kerio Network Monitor Daemonservice(i.e. all settings in the dialog Configuration with exception of the Users tab).
This right is in the column Rights in the list of the users shown as Conf.
- Change own password
The user has the right to modify his own password (in the menu Action / Change password). If the option Can manage users is on, turning the option on or off has no effect.
This right is not shown in the column Rights in the list of the users.